Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that particular domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually considered to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new company can have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting plan we offer you, allows you to view, change and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an illustration, you want to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated plans that we provide, you will have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires just a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.